Meet Your Provider
Russell Stuermann, MD is a board-certified anesthesiologist and interventional pain specialist. He completed fellowship training in pain medicine at the University of Kentucky and has extensive experience treating complex chronic pain conditions. Dr. Stuermann has been recognized for his leadership and excellence in patient care, including receiving the SB Magazine Top Doc Award. Dr. Stuermann resides in Shreveport with his wife and three children.
Diagnoses Treated
- Low back pain (mechanical, facet arthropathy, discogenic pain)
- Radicular back/leg pain (lumbar radiculopathy, sciatica)
- Neck pain and cervical radiculopathy
- Facet-mediated spinal pain
- Sacroiliac joint pain
- Spinal stenosis–related neurogenic claudication
- Disc herniation (symptomatic)
- Chronic postoperative spine pain / failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS)
- Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS)
- Peripheral neuropathic pain (post‑herpetic neuralgia, diabetic neuropathy focal neuropathies)
- Myofascial pain / trigger points
- Cancer-related pain (osseous metastases, nerve compression)
- Vertebral compression fractures (osteoporotic, metastatic)
- Somatic and visceral pain syndromes refractory to conservative care
Common Procedures
- Diagnostic medial branch blocks (facet pain)
- Diagnostic selective nerve root blocks (radicular pain)
- Diagnostic sacroiliac joint injections
- Trigger point diagnostic injections
- Diagnostic sympathetic blocks (sympathetically maintained pain/CRPS)
- Epidural steroid injections (interlaminar, transforaminal, caudal) — radicular/back pain inflammation
- Facet joint injections and medial branch blocks
- Radiofrequency ablation / thermal lesioning (medial branch RFA for facet pain; pulsed RFA for neuropathic pain)
- Sacroiliac joint injections and SI joint radiofrequency denervation
- Spinal cord stimulation (trial and permanent SCS) — FBSS, neuropathic limb pain, CRPS
- Peripheral nerve blocks and peripheral nerve ablation
- Sympathetic blocks (stellate ganglion, lumbar sympathetic) for CRPS and sympathetically maintained pain
- Kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty for painful vertebral compression fractures
- Joint injections (hip, knee, shoulder) including viscosupplementation and corticosteroid injections
- Botulinum toxin injections for myofascial pain or spasticity-related pain
- MILD procedures (Minimally Invasive Lumbar Decompression)
- Minimally invasive percutaneous sacroiliac joint fusion
